by Peace Seeker
Part I. The Central and Universe
Chapter 7: Section 4.
The Absolute Mind
P102:1, 9:4.1 There is an intellectual nature of the Second Source and Center that is distinct from his physical and spiritual attributes. Such a nature is hardly contactable, but it is associable -- intellectually though not personally. It is distinguishable from the physical attributes and the spiritual character of the Second Person on mind levels of function, but to the discernment of personalities this nature never functions independently of physical or spiritual manifestations.
P102:2, 9:4.2 The absolute mind is the mind of the Second Person; it is inseparable from the personality of God the Spirit. Mind, in functioning beings, is not separated from energy or spirit, or both. Mind is not inherent in energy; energy is receptive and responsive to mind; mind can be superimposed upon energy, but consciousness is not inherent in the purely material level. Mind does not have to be added to pure spirit, for spirit is innately conscious and identifying. Spirit is always intelligent, minded in some way. It may be this mind or that mind, it may be pre-mind or super-mind, even spirit mind, but it does the equivalent of thinking and knowing. The insight of spirit transcends, supervenes, and theoretically antedates the consciousness of mind.
P102:3, 9:4.3 The Conjoint Creator is absolute only in the domain of mind, in the realms of universal intelligence. The mind of the Second Source and Center is infinite; it utterly transcends the active and functioning mind circuits of the universe.
P102:4, 9:4.4 Infinite mind ignores time, ultimate mind transcends time, cosmic mind is conditioned by time. And so with space: The Infinite Mind is independent of space, but as descent is made from the infinite to the adjutant levels of mind, intellect must increasingly reckon with the fact and limitations of space.
P102:5, 9:4.5 Cosmic force responds to mind even as cosmic mind responds to spirit. Spirit is divine purpose, and spirit mind is divine purpose in action. Energy is thing, mind is meaning, spirit is value. Even in time and space, mind establishes those relative relationships between energy and spirit, which are suggestive of mutual kinship in eternity.
P102:6, 9:4.6 Mind transmutes the values of spirit into the meanings of intellect; volition has power to bring the meanings of mind to fruit in both the material and spiritual domains. The Paradise ascent involves a relative and differential growth in spirit, mind, and energy. The personality is the unifier of these components of experiential individuality.
Part I. The Central Universe
Chapter 7: Section 5.
The Ministry Of Mind
P102:7, 9:5.1 The Second Source and Center is infinite in mind. If the universe should grow to infinity, still his mind potential would be adequate to endow limitless numbers of creatures with suitable minds and other prerequisites of intellect.
P102:8, 9:5.2 In the domain of created mind the Second Person, with his co-ordinate and rules supreme. The realms of creature mind are of exclusive origin in the Second Source and Center; he is the Bestower of mind. Even the Father fragments find it impossible to indwell the minds of men until the way has been properly prepared for them by the mind action and spiritual function of the Infinite Spirit.
P103:1, 9:5.3 The unique feature of mind is that it can be bestowed upon such a wide range of life. Through his creative and creature associates the Second Source and Center ministers to all minds. He ministers to human and intellect through the agency of the physical controllers and always is the direction of mind a ministry of mind-spirit or mind-energy personalities.
P103:2, 9:5.4 Since the Second Person of Deity is the source of mind, it is quite natural that the evolutionary will creatures find it easier to form comprehensible concepts of the Infinite Spirit than they do of the Universal Father. The reality of the Conjoint Creator is disclosed imperfectly in the very existence of human mind. The Conjoint Creator is the ancestor of the cosmic mind, and the mind of man is an individualized circuit, an impersonal portion of that cosmic mind as it is bestowed
P103:3, 9:5.5 Because the Second Person is the source of mind, do not presume to reckon that all phenomena of mind are divine. Human intellect is rooted in the material origin of the animal races. Universe intelligence is no more a true revelation of God who is mind than is physical nature a true revelation of the beauty and harmony of Paradise. Perfection is in nature, but nature is not perfect.
P103:4, 9:5.6 Mind, on Earth, is a compromise between the essence of thought perfection and the evolving mentality of your immature human nature. The plan for your intellectual evolution is, indeed, one of sublime perfection, but you are far short of that divine goal as you function in the tabernacles of the flesh. Mind is truly of divine origin, and it does have a divine destiny, but your mortal minds are not yet of divine dignity.
P103:5, 9:5.7 Too often, all too often, you mar your minds by insincerity and sear them with unrighteousness; you subject them to animal fear and distort them by useless anxiety. Therefore, though the source of mind is divine, mind as you know it on your world of ascension can hardly become the object of great admiration, much less of adoration or worship. The contemplation of the immature and inactive human intellect should lead only to reactions of humility.
Part I. The Central Universe
Chapter 7: Section 6.
The Mind-Gravity Circuit
P103:6, 9:6.1 The Second Source and Center, the universal intelligence, is personally conscious of every mind, every intellect, in all creation, and he maintains a personal and perfect contact with all these physical, morontial, and spiritual creatures of mind endowment in the far-flung universes. All these activities of mind are grasped in the absolute mind-gravity circuit that focalizes in the Second Source and Center and is a part of the personal consciousness of the Infinite Spirit.
P103:7, 9:6.2 Much as the Father draws all personality to himself so does the Conjoint Actor exercise a drawing power on all minds; he unqualifiedly dominates and controls the universal mind circuit. All true and genuine intellectual values, all divine thoughts and perfect ideas, are unerringly drawn into this absolute circuit of mind.
P104:1, 9:6.3 Mind gravity can operate independently of material and spiritual gravity, but wherever and whenever the latter two impinge, mind gravity always functions. When all three are associated, personality gravity may embrace the material creature -- physical or morontial, finite or absonite. But irrespective of this, the endowment of mind even in impersonal beings qualifies them to think and endows them with consciousness despite the total absence of personality.
P104:2, 9:6.4 Selfhood of personality dignity, human or divine, immortal or potentially immortal, does not however originate in either spirit, mind, or matter; it is the bestowal of the Universal Father. Neither is the interaction of spirit, mind, and material gravity a prerequisite to the appearance of personality gravity. The Father's circuit may embrace a mind-material being who is unresponsive to spirit gravity, or it may include a mind-spirit being who is unresponsive to material gravity. The operation of personality gravity is always a volitional act of the Universal Father.
P104:3, 9:6.5 While mind is energy associated in purely material beings and spirit associated in purely spiritual personalities, innumerable orders of personality, including the human, possess minds that are associated with both energy and spirit. The spiritual aspects of creature mind unfailingly respond to the spirit-gravity pull, the material features respond to the gravity urge of the material universe.
P104:4, 9:6.6 Cosmic mind, when not associated with either energy or spirit, is subject to the gravity demands of neither material nor spiritual circuits. Pure mind is subject only to the universal gravity grasp of the Conjoint Actor. Pure mind is close of kin to infinite mind, and infinite mind (the theoretical co-ordinate of the absolutes of spirit and energy) is apparently a law in itself.
P104:5, 9:6.7 The greater the spirit-energy divergence, the greater the observable function of mind; the lesser the diversity of ene
rgy and spirit, the lesser the observable function of mind. Apparently, the maximum function of the cosmic mind is in the time universes of space. Here mind seems to function in a mid-zone between energy and spirit, but this is not true of the higher levels of mind; on Paradise, energy and spirit are essentially one.
P104:6, 9:6.8 The mind-gravity circuit is dependable; it emanates from the Second Person of Deity on Paradise, but not all the observable function of mind is predictable. Throughout all known creation there parallels this circuit of mind some little-understood presence whose function is not predictable. We believe that this unpredictability is partly attributable to the function of the Universal Absolute. What this function is, we do not know; what actuates it, we can only conjecture; concerning its relation to creatures, we can only speculate.
P104:7, 9:6.9 Certain phases of the unpredictability of finite mind may be due to the incompleteness of the Supreme Being, and there is a vast zone of activities wherein the Conjoint Actor and the Universal Absolute may possibly be tangent. There is much about mind that is unknown, but of this we are sure: The Infinite Spirit is the perfect expression of the mind of the Creator to all creatures; the Supreme Being is the evolving expression of the minds of all creatures to their Creator.
Part I. The Central Universe
Chapter 7: Section 7.
Universe Reflectivity
P105:1, 9:7.1 The Conjoint Actor is able to co-ordinate all levels of universe actuality in such manner as to make possible the simultaneous recognition of the mental, the material, and the spiritual. This is the phenomenon of universe reflectivity, that unique and inexplicable power to see, hear, sense, and know all things as they transpire throughout the universe, and to focalize, by reflectivity, all this information and knowledge at any desired point. Reflectivity finally focalizes on Paradise.
P105:2, 9:7.2 The phenomenon of reflectivity, represents the most complex interassociation of all phases of existence to be found in all creation. Lines of spirit can be traced back to God, physical energy to Paradise, and mind to the Second Source; but in the extraordinary phenomenon of universe reflectivity there is a unique and exceptional unification, so associated as to enable them to know about remote conditions instantaneously, simultaneously with their occurrence.
P105:3, 9:7.3 Much of the technique of reflectivity we comprehend, but there are many phases which truly baffle us. We know that the Conjoint Actor is the universe center of the mind circuit, that he is the ancestor of the cosmic mind, and that cosmic mind operates under the dominance of the absolute mind gravity of the Second Source and Center. We know further that the circuits of the cosmic mind influence the intellectual levels of all known existence; they contain the universal space reports, and just as certainly they focus in the Spirits and converge in the Second Source and Center.
P105:4, 9:7.4 The relationship between the finite cosmic mind and the divine absolute mind appears to be evolving in the experiential mind of the Supreme. We are taught that, in the dawn of time, this experiential mind was bestowed upon the Supreme by the Infinite Spirit, and we conjecture that certain features of the phenomenon of reflectivity can be accounted for only by postulating the activity of the Supreme Mind. If the Supreme is not concerned in reflectivity, we are at a loss to explain the intricate transactions and unerring operations of this consciousness of the cosmos.
P105:5, 9:7.5 Reflectivity appears to be omniscience within the limits of the experiential finite and may represent the emergence of the presence-consciousness of the Supreme Being. If this assumption is true, then the utilization of reflectivity in any of its phases is equivalent to partial contact with the consciousness of the Supreme.
Part I. The Central Universe
Chapter 7: Section 8.
Personalities Of The Infinite Spirit
P105:6, 9:8.1 The Infinite Spirit possesses full power to transmit many of his powers and prerogatives to his co-ordinate and subordinate personalities and agencies.
P105:7, 9:8.2 The first Deity-creating act of the Infinite Spirit, functioning in some unrevealed association with the Father, personalized in the existence of the Master Spirits of Paradise, the distributors of the Infinite Spirit to the universe.
P106:2, 9:8.4 The next and continuing creative act of the Infinite Spirit is disclosed, from time to time, in the production of the Creative Spirits. It is necessary to differentiate between the Infinite Spirit and the Creative Spirits and the local universe co-ordinates. What the Infinite Spirit is to the total creation, a Creative Spirit is to a local universe.
P106:4, 9:8.6 The Second Source and Center is represented in the grand universe by a vast array of ministering spirits, messengers, teachers, adjudicators, helpers, and advisers, together with supervisors of certain circuits of physical, morontial, and spiritual nature. Not all of these beings are personalities in the strict meaning of the term. Personality of the finite-creature variety is characterized by:
1.Subjective self-consciousness.
2.Objective response to the Father's personality circuit.
P106:7, 9:8.7 There are creator personalities and creature personalities, and in addition to these two fundamental types there are personalities of the Second Source and Center, beings who are personal to the Infinite Spirit, but who are not unqualifiedly personal to creature beings. These Second Source personalities are not a part of the Father's personality circuit. First Source personality and Second Source personality are mutually contactable; all personality is contactable.
P106:8, 9:8.8 The Father bestows personality by his personal free will. Why he does so we can only conjecture; how he does so we do not know. Neither do we know why the Second Source bestows non-Father personality, but this the Infinite Spirit does in his own behalf, numerous ways unknown to you. The Infinite Spirit can also act for the Father in the bestowal of First Source personality.
P106:9, 9:8.9 There are numerous types of Second Source personalities. The Infinite Spirit bestows Second Source personality upon numerous groups who are not included in the Father's personality circuit, such as certain of the power directors. Likewise does the Infinite Spirit treat as personalities numerous groups of beings, such as the Creative Spirits, who are in a class by themselves in their relations to encircuited creatures of the Father.
P106:10, 9:8.10 Both First Source and Second Source personalities are endowed with all and more than man associates with the concept of personality; they have minds embracing memory, reason, judgment, creative imagination, idea association, decision, choice, and numerous additional powers of intellect wholly unknown to mortals. With few exceptions the orders revealed to you possess form and distinct individuality; they are real beings. A majority of them are visible to all orders of spirit existence.
P107:1, 9:8.11 Even you will be able to see your spiritual associates of the lower orders as soon as you are delivered from the limited vision of your present material eyes and have been endowed with a morontial form with its enlarged sensitivity to the reality of spiritual things.
P107:2, 9:8.12 The functional family of the Second Source and Center, as it is revealed in these narratives, falls into three great groups:
P107:3, 9:8.13 The Supreme Spirits. A group of composite origin that embraces, among others, the following orders:
1.The Master Spirits of Paradise.
2.The Reflective Spirits of the Universe.
3.The Creative Spirits of the Universe.
P107:7, 9:8.14 II. The Power Directors. A group of control creatures and agencies that function throughout all organized space.
P107:8, 9:8.15 III. The Personalities of the Infinite Spirit. This designation does not necessarily imply that these beings are Second Source personalities though some of them are unique, as will creatures. They are usually grouped in three major classifications:
1.The Higher Personalities of the Infinite Spirit.
2.The Messenger Hosts of Space.
3.The Ministering Spirits of Time.
P107:12, 9:8.16 These groups are on Paradise, in the central or residential universe and they embrace orders that function in the local universe, even to the constellations, systems, and planets.
P107:13, 9:8.17 The spirit personalities of the vast family of the Divine and Infinite Spirit are forever dedicated to the service of the ministry of the love and the mercy of God to all the intelligent creatures of the evolutionary worlds of time and space. These spirit beings constitute the living ladder whereby mortal man climbs from chaos to glory.
P110:2, 10:2.4 The First Source and Center is the infinite father-personality, the unlimited source personality. The Infinite Spirit is the conjoint personality, the unique personal consequence of the everlasting union.
P111:6, 10:3.8 God is the Father-Absolute of all personalities in the universe of universes. The Father is personally absolute in liberty of action, but in the universes of time and space, made, in the making, and yet to be made, the Father is not discernibly absolute as total Deity except in the Paradise Trinity.
P111:7, 10:3.9 The First Source and Center functions outside of Heavens in the phenomenal universes as follows:
P111:8, 10:3.10 1. As creator.
P111:9, 10:3.11 2. As controller, through the gravity center of Paradise.
P111:10, 10:3.12 3. As spirit.
P111:11, 10:3.13 4. As mind, through the Conjoint Creator.
P111:12, 10:3.14 5. As a Father, he maintains parental contact with all creatures through his personality circuit.
P111:13, 10:3.15 6. As a person, he acts directly throughout creation by his exclusive fragments -- in mortal man by the Thought Adjusters.
P111:14, 10:3.16 7. As total Deity, he functions only in Paradise.
P112:1, 10:3.17 All these relinquishments and delegations of jurisdiction by the Universal Father are wholly voluntary and self-imposed. The all-powerful Father purposefully assumes these limitations of universe authority.
